RT Article
T1 Neighborhood Cultural Heterogeneity and Adolescent Violence
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 28
IS 3
SP 411
OP 435
A1 Berg, Mark T.
A2 Stewart, Eric A.
A2 Brunson, Rod K.
A2 Simons, Ronald L.
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767142919
AB A small number of scholars have attempted to reorient current thinking about the way cultural effects operate in poor neighborhoods. Scholars argue that socioeconomic disadvantage fosters heterogeneity in cultural models. Moreover, cultural heterogeneity theoretically plays an important role in shaping adolescent decision-making in poor neighborhoods, including decisions related to violent behavior. We test these assumptions using multilevel data comprised of a sample of African-American adolescents. Our findings lend support to these arguments. In particular, the results suggested that neighborhood structural disadvantage increases the degree of disagreement or heterogeneity regarding the inappropriateness of violence. Further, exposure to cultural heterogeneity increased adolescents’ involvement in violent behavior and had a moderating influence on the link between individual frames and adolescent violent behavior.
K1 Adolescence
K1 Cultural processes
K1 Structural disadvantage
K1 Violence
K1 Neighborhood effects
DO 10.1007/s10940-011-9146-6